Word: praiseed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The praise Tolins gets from his peers is so lavish that at times his theatrical co-workers can't avoid giving their enthusiasm for him the little extra push that is all it needs to turn into self-parody. "He knows everything about everything," complains fellow Pudding script writer Blake...
"I would not want to say anything about Ken without being irreverent, because the fact is, he's just getting too much praise," quips Shepsle's former colleague Salisbury. "In all likelihood, now that he's left Washington University, he won't do anything else of much significance."
While much of his attention at a Kennedy School of Government symposium on September 5 focused on an airline hijaking in Pakistan, Secretary of Defense Casper W. Weinberger '38 took time to praise the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense initiative (SDI) as the best, realistic deterrent to nuclear war.
While much of his attention at a Kennedy School of Government symposium on September 5 focused on an airline hijaking in Pakistan, Secretary of Defense Casper W. Weinberger '38 took time to praise the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense initiative (SDI) as the best, realistic deterrent to nuclear war.
Some Western officials tried to find encouraging signs from the meeting. British diplomats claimed to detect new realism in the summit's debates because the conferees rejected a Cuban proposal to praise the Soviet Union's support for nonaligned nations. But the Reagan Administration did not draw such fine distinctions...